NHS Choices: what we do

About us

NHS Choices (www.nhs.uk) was launched in 2007 and is the official website of the National Health Service in England. With over 48 million visits per month, we have become the UK's biggest health website accounting for a quarter of all health-related web traffic. We strive to be a world-leading, multi-channel service for everyone engaging with the NHS and social care.

Discover how NHS Choices performed in 2015. We recorded 583 million visits in that year, 80 million more than 2014. View the NHS Choices 2015 traffic report (PDF, 345kb) and get an insight into the key trends and events that led to that success.

NHS Choices provides an award-winning, comprehensive health information service with thousands of articles, videos and tools, helping you to make the best choices about your health and lifestyle, but also about making the most of NHS and social care services in England.

Our service directories let you find, choose and compare health, support and social care services in England. We also publish reviews and ratings across health and social care services.

Where possible we offer online transactional services that should make your interaction with the NHS much simpler.